Lisa Jevbratt

Lisa Jevbratt is a Swedish born artist and a professor in the Art Department and in the Media Art Technology program at University of California, Santa Barbara. For more than a decade she explored the expressions and exchanges created by the protocols and languages of the Internet and the Web, often manifesting as visualization software. She is now applying her understanding of these unintentional collaborations onto exchanges with animals of other species and their experiences of the world around them. In her ongoing endeavor "Interspecies Collaboration" she invites students to collaborate with individuals of other species and her current software-art project Zoomorph is software generating simulations of how non-human animals see.

Jevbratt's work has been exhibited extensively in venues such as The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), The New Museum (New York), The Swedish National Public Art Council (Stockholm, Sweden), and the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); and it is discussed in numerous books, for example "Internet Art" by Rachel Greene, "Digital Art" by Christiane Paul and "Art + Science Now" by Stephen Wilson (all Thames and Hudson). Jevbratt also publishes texts on topics related to her projects and research, for example "Inquiries in Infomics", a chapter in the anthology "Network Art - Practices and Positions" ed. Tom Corby (Routledge) and "Interspecies Collaboration, Making Art Together with Nonhuman Animals" in Tierstudien [Animal Studies] Issue 1 (Neofelis Verlag, Berlin, Germany). Her current project Zoomorph is supported by a Creative Capital grant.

Time-laps Photographs, Image Filtering Software (Jan. 2009)
"Days Following: Difference" is an honest attempt to capture a ghost. The project consists of photographs taken automatically every minute for five hours during a (haunted?) night, accompanied by images generated by software comparing the difference between two sequential photographs. In addition a visualization was made using the exif data of all the photographs, in yet another attempt to capture something out of the ordinary.

The night in question, 5 days following my mothers passing, a TV set turned on by itself and a doll, given to me as a child by my mother, was moving across the floor, as witnessed by a mesmerized cat.

Web Site, University Class (2006 - ongoing)
www.interspeciescollaboration.net is a web site for posting resources relating to interspecies collaboration and project documentation of art project made together with non-human animals.
(Created for the UCSB art class "Interspecies Collaboration", now open to anyone who wants to participate).

Web/Network Usage Visualization (June 2006)
Commissioned by Svenska Statens Konstråd (the Swedish National Public Art Council). The project makes more sense for swedish speaking people
but there are descriptions in english.

The Infome Imager allows the user to create "crawlers" (software robots, which could be thought of as automated Web browsers) that gather data from the Web, and it provides methods for visualizing the collected data.

Visualization Software, Carnivore Client (2002)
Out of the Ordinary is a Carnivore client, a network visualization software, which measures
and maps the probability of communication between computers on the network that the software
resides on, and between computers on the network and the Internet.

Web Site, Softbots, Database (1999/2002)
1:1 was a project created in 1999 that consisted of a database that would eventually contain the address of every Web site in the world and interfaces through which to view and use the database. 1:1(2) is a continuation of the project including a second database of addresses generated in 2001 and 2002 and interfaces that show and compare the data from both databases.

Web Site, Mail Software (2000)
At the Syncro Mail web site the user can send an e-mail including
a picture and subject line to a person. The word and image are randomly selected
from the web and the person sending the mail can not influence the selection and does not see the mail.

Software Application, Web Site (1999)
(As a member of C5)
The SoftSub research project is directed at developing a better understanding of the dynamics of organizational architectures and strategies involving personal computers. We are specifically interested in a better understanding of the dynamics of the relationship between files, folders, system, and desktop configurations. What is the objective? At C5 we think that individual users evolve organizational styles and structures that are not unique to their computing activity, but rather belong to larger communities of 'organizations'. There is no discrete computer.

Web Site, Database (1999)
(As a member of C5)
The 16 Sessions project applies data agencies and data attributes generated from Not to See a Thing, an installation by Joel Slayton, to the C5 database of validated http IP addresses (see 1:1) in order to generate a new topology of the www.

Parasitic Web System (1998)
The Non-Site gallery utilizes the void constituted by non-existing information, non-functioning scripts and bad requests.
It claims unintentional space for projects that take advantage of its special conditions. The gallery is hosted by the CADRE institute server and the projects are triggered as a response to 400, 404 and 500 error messages on the CADRE and the SWITCH sites.

One of the exhibited projects (created by me) is called "Recent Additions" and creates the pages or images that does not exist when they are requested.

Network, Software Agents, Pagers (1997-1998)
CADREnet was a collaborative art project investigating issues of communication networks and system dynamics. It consisted of a pager community who governed the functionality of a paging system, mainly by creating software agents and orchestrating events. I developed the main router for the pager
communication and software agents, the web interface and the different
commands for manipulating the functionality of the system and the agents externally. Archive of the CADREnet web-site

Web Site (1997)
A re-contextualization of the land-art artist Michael Heizer's work. The project was made in collaboration with Jan Ekenberg, Benjamin Eakins. The site is not accessible for the moment due to possible lawsuit.
See Above.

Software (1995)
PAT was a software agent residing on Switch Journal web server (switch.sjsu.edu) in the spring of 1995 monitoring, interpreting (according to the enneagram personality profiles) and responding to, the navigation of the users on the Switch web site. Each user was served different content depending on their behavior/type.
and their "mental health" was mapped
In collaboration with Ben Eakins and Mark Erikson.

3D Animation (Winter 1995)
A few stills survived from this animation. The original animation contained movies of modeled pieces of crap intersepted by the new words added to the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language 1995.